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paper51.com Abstract paper51.com Color is closely related topeople’s life. In human language, the color words are frequently used, andendowed with plentiful emotion and cultural connotation. In both Chinese andEnglish, the words of different colors are abundant. We should not only payattention to their own basic meaning but also their deeper symbolic meaning.Due to the respective cultural background and tradition, people's feeling andexpression to the color are not the same, so the symbolic meaning of color canproduce great difference between Chinese and Western culture. This paper is tomake a contrastive study of some major differences in color words. http://www.paper51.com Key words: color words, culturalconnotation, Western culture, Chinese culture, paper51.com 摘 要 copyright paper51.com 在我们生活中有许多种颜色。颜色与人们的生活紧紧联系在一起。在人类语言里颜色词经常用到，并且被赋予不同的情感和文化象征。在中文和英文中不同的颜色词很丰富。我们不仅要注意他们的基本含义还要注意他们深层含义。由于各自的文化背景和传统，人们对颜色的感觉是不相同的，所以与颜色词的象征意义息息相关的是中国与西方文化的巨大差异。这篇论文对比研究英汉颜色词的主要差异。 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 关键词：颜色词; 文化; 西方文化; 中国文化; 颜色 copyright paper51.com
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Statement of Authorship. i 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com Acknowledgments. ii 内容来自www.paper51.com Abstract iii 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 摘 要... iv paper51.com 1. Introduction. 1 copyright paper51.com 2. The similarities of English and Chinese color words. 2 http://www.paper51.com
2.1 Most of colors have different degrees. 2 内容来自www.paper51.com
2.2 Two colors together make up mixedcolor. 2 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 2.3 Colors resemble the materials innature. 2 paper51.com 2.4 Most of colors come from fruits andplants of nature. 3 http://www.paper51.com 3. The differences between Chinese and English colorwords. 3 内容来自www.paper51.com 3.1 The loss of the original meaning ofcolor in Chinese. 3 3.2 The loss of the original meaning ofcolor in English. 6 3.3 The differences in cultural connotationsbetween Chinese and English color words. 9 4. Conclusion. 10 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com References. 12 http://www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com 1. IntroductionVocabularyis one of the most important essentials of language and also the basic elementof languages communication. As the linguist David Wilkins (1972) said, “Withoutgrammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed(Zhang Weiyou 1997: 3).” That is to say, vocabularyplays a major role in language. Language consists of pronunciation, grammar,and vocabulary. But it is inadequate for us only to know pronunciation andgrammar on the grounds that we put our ideas, feelings and thought into words.As we know, there are large numbers of lexicons that are related to color inboth English and Chinese languages. Lexicons are affected by their nationalculture and are most sensitive to the social culture reflection. Andthey may arouse absolutely dissimilar cultural connotations or senses. However,on account of different languages and cultural systems, namely, differenthistories, customs, values, as well as religious beliefs between China andEnglish speaking countries, the cultural connotations of color words in Chinesedon’t necessarily coincide with their English dittos. copyright paper51.com
Generallyspeaking, there are two major categories of the color words: basic color words andcompound color words. Basic color words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple,black, white, brown and grey. They are very easy tocompound. In China there are eleven kinds, namely: “红”, “橙”, “黄”, “绿”, “青”, “蓝”, “紫”, “黑”, “白”, “棕”, and “灰”. It is worth to noting here, there’s no words to correspond in Englishwith “青” in Chinese. But we always use it inChinese, such as green hills “青山”, blue sky “青天”, and so on. These basic color wordsnot always appear alone in our daily life, they always appear as compound. Sothe compound color words are the practical color words, we always use them inour daily life. copyright paper51.com paper51.compaper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com |